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Word: purchaseed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>The President signed the Army's final supply bill, $223,398,047 mostly for new planes. To this sum it was expected he would ask Congress to add $25,000,000. It would be used to purchase and store strategic minerals such as zinc, chromium, manganese and tin and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Angry Commuter | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Only 30,000 tons of the rubber are now in stock in Singapore; the rest must ooze out of trees, be dried and baled for shipment. The U. S. cotton is but 41% of the 13,700,000-bale mountain held by the Government. To release it, Congress has only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Swap | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

The subject of his warning was brokers' general practice of taking customers' cash deposits and mingling them with their own funds, with the result that if a broker fails, his customers are just some of many unsecured creditors. By contrast, he pointed out that the U. S.'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Fire Warning | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

The hills on the coast of Indo-China drop steeply to the sea, continue their sharp decline beneath the surface, so that the water where the Phenix disappeared is 365 to 375 feet deep. Built to stand pressures down to 330 feet, the hull of the submarine probably collapsed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Law of Averages | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

To police forces, to private protective agencies (which now have to get approval of the U. S. Attorney General for purchase of a Tommy gun), to the U. S. Marines, to many a European and South American army, Thompsons were sold. The General's son, Colonel Marcellus H. Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUNITIONS: Chopper | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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